Stage & Arts
Old Log Theater owner makes professional debut in 'The Play That Goes Wrong'
Greg Frankenfield bought the theater in 2013 but it is the first time he's stepping on its stage as an actor.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities theater pioneer Lewis Whitlock III dies at 72
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres standout starred in the first national tour of "The Wiz" and brought "Black Nativity" to Penumbra.
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Updated Broadway hit 'Constitution' opens at Guthrie Theater
Cassie Beck stars in the national tour relaunch of Heidi Schreck's play.
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Tony Awards are back, and so is a Twin Cities theater fanatic's mission
Kitty Fahey is hoping to snag tickets to the Broadway ceremony like she has in past years.
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Minnesota Opera takes to the soccer pitch for a surprising night at the opera
REVIEW: Minnesota Opera took over the Loons' stadium for its season-opening concert.
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Walker Art Center elects Woke Coach founder as first woman of color to lead board
Longtime Twin Cities arts leader Seena Hodges will lead an all-female team as president.
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'Animate' offers buzzy spectacle and primal charisma at St. Paul's Como Zoo
Mixed Blood Theatre's new play tackles hot-button issues against the backdrop of animal exhibits.
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Weisman Art Museum hires Mexican cultural leader as its new leader
Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez endured a hurricane as director of Puerto Rico's Museo de Arte de Ponce.
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Ananya Dance Theatre continues to be a relentless crusader for social justice
Ananya Dance Theatre uses creative movements to address social justice issues in "Dastak."
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A lifetime of work is acquired by Mpls. Institute of Art: 'It will be like a family reunion'
The complete archive of the nationally renowned Twin Cities printmaking center is now enshrined at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Minnesota playhouses are reopening with a mix of classics and new shows this fall
Twin Cities theater companies are knocking wood, hoping that their comeback seasons this fall will stick.
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Limestone Comedy Festival mines laughs out of the pandemic
The Limestone Comedy Festival proves you don't need big audiences for big laughs, just good comics.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Bakken Museum's rooftop became a stage
Plays, cabaret acts, concerts by Jeremy Messersmith and others, a drag show, improv and more have followed on the roof, which could host up to 90 with social distancing but has a maximum capacity of 140 now.
Stage & Arts
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon return for a 2nd season of 'The Morning Show'
Critics pick the buzziest shows and movies to watch on TV this weekend.
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As the arts come back, Minnesota notables weigh in on what's changed
As Minnesota's arts and entertainment scene faces a hopeful if uncertain season ahead, we asked local artists, actors, singers and dancers to reflect on lessons learned during the prolonged months of shutdown and upheaval.
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Around the Region
- Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
- Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi wins Spanish Asturias award for communication
- Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show
- Repatriated South African apartheid-era artworks on display to celebrate 30 years of democracy
- A portrait by Gustav Klimt has been sold for $32 million at an auction in Vienna
- Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' platforms LGBTQ+, outsider and Indigenous artists
- Maurizio Cattelan, Zoe Saldana join iconoclastic Vatican Biennale exhibition inside women's prison
- Choctaw artist Jeffrey Gibson confronts history at US pavilion as its first solo Indigenous artist
- Major Berlin show marks 250th anniversary of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth
- A painting of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work he hated is up for auction
Most Read
- Walker Art Center debuts major exhibition by 1980s art star Keith Haring
- What would be lost if Intermedia closes? Twin Cities artists reflect
- Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years
- Prairie Island Indian Community requests the return of 'Mankato Hanging Rope'
- Work that shimmers with water and glitter reflects Minneapolis artist's complex story
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